Fairfax Splash Pad

Video features the outdoor Aquatix splash pad by Landscape Structures at Fairfax Splash Pad in Fairfax Iowa.

[video: scene fades into a ground view of families playing at a sports themed splash pad. Camera switches to a full elevated view of the splash pad filled with families. A parking lot sits beyond the splash pad and beyond that a baseball field and sports complex. Scene switches to a ground panning view right to left as children run and play through the many ground sprayers on the splash pad. Scene switches to a man wearing a red Fairfax Parks and Recreation t-shirt. Blue animated water droplets fall in the bottom left corner of the screen revealing white text in the bottom left corner that reads “Joe Kell, Parks and Recreation Director, City of Fairfax, Iowa”. Joe begins to talk about the splash pad.]

Joe: I think the effect on the community has been…it’s a destination now for not only our community but it’s also a destination for surrounding communities.

[video: focused view of the tops of three water activities. A mushroom shaped roof painted like a soccer ball with water gliding off the top, and spinning baseball spraying streams of water, and a large football that dumps large amounts of water. Scene switches to a young boy as he walks to spin a large post by holding onto a steering wheel a few feet up from the posts base. The camera switches to a view of the top of the post as it spins with a large baseball spraying several streams of water in different directions. Camera switches back to Joe as he continues to speak.]

Joe: We’ve got a small Sports Complex here with the soccer fields and with the playground, this just adds another dimension to that.

[video: camera pans right to left across the splash pad as children play at all the different water activities. A girl kicks a ground geyser and walks through the water. A young girl walks up to an arched bar spraying water from multiple holes. She squints as she looks up at the camera.]

Joe voiceover: This is where people want to come play their baseball, this is where they want to have their tournaments at, this is where they want to have their kids involved in.

[video: camera switches back to Joe briefly. Switch to an elevated circling view of a large baseball bat with a baseball on the tip of the bat spraying a shower of streams from the top of the ball. Camera pans down to a large ground globe painted like a baseball. Water bubbles from the top of the ball while a girl leans on the baseball globe. Camera flashes back to Joe.]

Joe: Because of all the things that we do have. On a good day when this thing’s running at full capacity it’s about 97,000 gallons of water that’ll go through here.

[video: full elevated view of children playing at the different sports themed water activities. Three children play together in the bubble water on the top of the baseball painted globe. Camera switches back to Joe briefly and then to a full bird’s eye view of the splash pad.]

Joe voiceover: Now we don’t recirculate any of that because of the cost associated with that, it goes right into our water filtration. But on a daily average it cost us about fifteen dollars a day to operate the splash pad at full capacity.

[video: camera focuses on a sprayer shaped like a large hockey puck showering water out from its center. Scene switches to a focused view of a red arched bar like a hockey goal as it’s sprays water from multiple holes on one side of the bar. Scene switches to a focused view of the top mushroom shaped roof painted like a soccer ball as water cascades down. Camera focuses on a rotatable sphere painted like a basketball with a single stream of water spraying. Scene switches to a girl as she plays in the bubbling water on the top of a large basketball painted globe. Scene switches to a full elevated view of the splash pad as the camera slowly pans vertically. Camera switches back to Joe.]

Joe: I was on city council I had the same concerns as anybody would have as far as financial and that sort of thing.

Joe voiceover: But I don’t think anybody that had those concerns prior would have those same concerns today.

[video: two girls play together in the bubbling water of the large baseball painted globe. Camera focuses on a girl as she holds her arms out at her side like she is flying through a row of ground sprayers. A boy rotates a football painted sphere as he aims its single stream of water across the splash pad. Camera switches back to Joe.]

Joe: It’s an investment but it’s an investment into your community.

[video: camera focuses on the large hockey puck as it sprays water from its center as children play at the other sports themed water activities in the background. Scene switches to a view across the splash pad as children play at the different water activities. The camera walks up to a girl as she points to a water activity on the splash pad.]

Girl: One of my favorite parts is when that runs down.

[video: elevated view of the large football painted waterfall bucket. Water pours down from the football shape and painted gathering bucket hitting a green acrylic panel below altering the direction the water flows in. Children run and stand in the splash zone as the water falls down all around them. Camera switches to a ground view of the splash zone as a group of children shout and scream as they get drenched. The camera walks into the water as it continues to cascade down. A boy smiles as he stands in the pour water in the splash zone. Camera pulls back for a full view of the splash zone as children continue to jump and play in the water. The camera focuses in closer on the children as they smile, giggle, and jump in the falling water. Camera pulls back again for a full view of the splash zone. Scene switches to a girl as she holds the camera facing herself as she runs across the splash pad. As she runs, she giggles and talks.]

Girl: I think the pizza.

[video: scene switches as the camera follows the young girl as she jogs around a post and giggles. The camera continues to follow the girl as she runs to other water activities. Scene switches back to the girl as she holds the camera facing herself as she walks through some ground sprayers. Scene fades to black and back into a girl as she cups her hands at the top of a geyser. Scene fades to black and back into a view of the splash pad as water falls in slow motion from the different water activities. Children play and enjoy themselves in the water. The screen fades to white as blue animated rain drops fall in the center of the screen. As the droplets fall the Aquatix logo appears. The Aquatix logo slides the left of the screen as a black line draws itself to the right of the logo. The Outdoor Recreation Products rep company logo slides the right out from the black line. Video ends.]